BookEisenhower : the White House years
Personal name
Main title
- Eisenhower : the White House years / Jim Newton.
Edition
- 1st ed.
Published/Created
- New York : Doubleday, c2011.
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Description
- 451 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN
- 9780385523530 (hardcover)
- 038552353X (hardcover)
LC classification
- E836 .N49 2011
Summary
- Newly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew. Belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief, Eisenhower ground down Joseph McCarthy, stimulated the economy to lift it from recession, and turned an $8 billion deficit in 1953 into a $500 million surplus in 1960. The President Eisenhower of popular imagination is a benign figure, armed with a putter, a winning smile, and little else. The Eisenhower of veteran journalist Jim Newton's rendering is shrewd, sentimental, and tempestuous. Admired as a general, he was a champion of peace. In Korea and Vietnam, in Quemoy and Berlin, his generals urged him to wage nuclear war. Time and again he considered the idea and rejected it. And it was Eisenhower who appointed the liberal justices Earl Warren and William Brennan and who then called in the military to enforce desegregation in the schools.--From publisher description.
Contents
- Making Ike -- The first term -- The second term.
LC Subjects
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Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-425) and index.
LCCN
- 2011010759
Dewey class no.
- 973.921092 B
Geographic area code
- n-us---
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)ocn694394274
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- Book
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